Octavia Butler

What “talent” have you buried that the country could use right now? What can each of us share to make this world the one we want to live in? February was a continuation of Octavia Butler’s incomplete Earthseed trilogy. The dystopian vision of America begun in Parable of the Sower…

I wish I could take credit for this picture. A friend forwarded it to me from @lindaurbanbooks’s Twitter feed. I believe this is the Women’s March in Los Angeles, and oh so appropriate for the first book of the year: A lot has happened since the start of this book…

In the 1960 movie adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, the hero– H.George Wells– returns home from a far-flung future to retrieve three books with which to rebuild humanity. The movie ends with the question, “Which three would you have taken?” I have often pondered this question, and come up…